U+2CDA "Ⳛ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Shima Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2CDA "Ⳛ" Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Shima is a letter from the Coptic script used in writing the Coptic language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian. This specific character represents a variant form of the letter "Shima," which is associated with the Old Coptic writing system, an early adaptation of the Greek alphabet supplemented with additional signs from Demotic Egyptian to represent sounds not present in Greek. The capital form "Ⳛ" is distinct from other Coptic letters in its shape and phonetic value, which is conventionally transcribed as /ʃ/ or the "sh" sound, and it appears primarily in historical or liturgical texts where older orthographic conventions were preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2CDA |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Coptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| Block | Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⳛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⳛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB3 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2CDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002CDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2cda |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⳛ" U+2CDB Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⳛ" U+2CDB Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⳛ" U+2CDB Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| Case Folding | "ⳛ" U+2CDB Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⳛ" U+2CDB Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⳛ" U+2CDB Coptic Small Letter Old Coptic Shima |
| Script | Coptic |
| Script Extensions | Coptic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |